Lorenz curves
Transfer Policies with Discontinuous Lorenz Curves
... In earlier papers, classes of transfer policies have been studied and maximal and minimal Lorenz curves L p ( ) obtained. In addition, there are policies belonging to the class with given Gini indices or ...
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves
... no Lorenz dominance (Lorenz Curves cross each other, see Figure 4a), ...case, Lorenz Curves fail to provide a conclusive answer on welfare superiority of one distribution with respect ...
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Using Lorenz curves to represent firm heterogeneity in Cournot games
... their Lorenz curves cross and provide no guidance about which vector is associated with the higher industry profit and social ...marginal-cost curves which are weakly increasing parallel lines, then ...
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves
... both Lorenz curves, and GL curves, thanks to both Atkinson’s and Shorrocks’ Theorems, are powerful tools for ranking different income distributions on welfare ...when Lorenz curves fail ...
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Properties of Lorenz Curves for Transformed Income Distributions
... ions on Lorenz ol. 44, No. 4, 1976, pp. 823- formed one. In applications, the first case is more impor- tant than the second, because it yields policies which reduce the inequality. The case (2) in Theorem 2 is ...
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Transformations and Lorenz Curves: Sufficient and Necessary Conditions
... nuous. Furthermore, we consider the transformation Y g X = ( ) , where g ( ) ⋅ is non-negative and monotone increasing. A fundamental theorem concerning the effect of income transformations on Lorenz curves ...
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
... GL curves cross once 11 ...either Lorenz domination or with GL ...GL curves cross each other once, the conditions reported in the section above need to be ...
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Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth: Bank Credit Maturity and Its Determinants
... used Lorenz curves on actual datasets to evaluate welfare and poverty in given ...generalized Lorenz dominance, 1999 ranks first on social welfare trends in ...of Lorenz curves can be ...
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A Study of Population Density Distribution Pattern of Karachi City Using Spatial Interaction Gravity Models (Sigms)
... Abstract: Administratively, before the year 2000 Karachi was distributed in five districts. Afterwards, it was divided into eighteen towns. It gave rise to a great controversy that whether the 5-district system is ...
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The application of economic instruments to the management of threatened species : a fisheries case study in the Galápagos Islands : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Science (Natural Resource Economics), Massey University,
... 74 Figure 5.5 - Lorenz curves & Gini coefficients, Catch and E.ffort Distribution: 2005 Spiny Lobster Fishery, vessel-owners based in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno .... 78 Figure 5.6 - Expecte[r] ...
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Impact of taxes on redistribution in the Czech Republic
... using Lorenz curves and Gini coeffi cients. Results for Lorenz curves show that taxes and insurance premia had less signifi cant role in redistribution for households 201 and 202 and main driver ...
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Asymptotic Behaviors of the Lorenz Curve for Left Truncated and Dependent Data
... the Lorenz process l t n ( ) : = n L t [ n ( ) − L t F ( ) ,0 ] ≤ ≤ t 1 to a Gaussian process under suitable ...the Lorenz and other related ...the Lorenz process, by which Rao and Zhao [26] derived ...
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Equitable wages - a progress report. COM (96) 698 final, 8 January 1996
... Wage distribution in selected Member States For the 7 Member States for which data have been provided, Lorenz curves are plotted here showing the distribution, first, of the monthly earn[r] ...
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Exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Dagum distribution with applications to income and lifetime data
... and Lorenz curves are widely used tool for analyzing and visualizing income ...inequality. Lorenz curve, L(p) can be regarded as the proportion of total income volume accumulated by those units with ...
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Income Inequality Measures
... DOI: 10.4236/tel.2018.83039 565 Theoretical Economics Letters Lorenz curve diagrams. As a disadvantage, the Gini index only maps a number to the properties of a diagram, but the diagram itself is not based on any ...
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Distribution of health care resources in Mongolia using the Gini coefficient
... the Lorenz curve . The Gini coefficient measures the area between the Lorenz curve and a hypothetical line of absolute equality, which is expressed as a percentage of the maximum area under the ...area. ...
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Quantification of factors influencing the difference in household income in the Czech Republic
... the Lorenz curve. When creating Lorenz curves, the identifi cation of particular household deciles was used, where the income structures and their changes in a particular period of time were ...the ...
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
... More inequality in income distributions implies more convex Lorenz Curves. At the extreme of distribution C, all persons except for one pass by with zero income, i.e., with zero per cent of total income. ...
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An elementary characterization of the Gini index
... An axiomatization for the continuous version of the Gini index is provided in Aaberge (2001), it is based on the imposition of axioms to characterize an order over Lorenz curves, viewed as lotteries of the ...
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Chaos and strange attractors of the lorenz equations
... of Lorenz system will be made by varying the parameter r within a certain range and we can observe that there is a change in behavior depending on the value of r ...chosen. Lorenz attractor exists at a ...
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